150 West 55th Street

 apartment building, commercial building

9-story Neo-Renaissance cooperative-apartment building completed in 1923. Designed by Larsen Shein Ginsberg Snyder, it is clad in dark reddish-brown brick with a white stone water table. The three middle bays have paired windows, the next bay on either side has triple-windows, and the end bays have paired windows. The main entrance is in the center bay, with a stone molding that extends up to encompass the windows at the 2nd floor as well. The double-doors are glass and black metal, with elegant grillework and sidelights. A rounded, navy-blue canvas canopy extends out over the sidewalk. There is a small cornice with short modillions above the canopy, with an iron railing in front of the bases of the 2nd-floor windows. At the ground floor, the bays that have triple-windows above instead have glass commercial doors next to display-windows. The bay to the left of the main entrance also has a glass door; all the others simply have display-windows. There is a metal service door at the far east end. All of the storefront bays have navy-blue, sloped canvas awnings.

At the upper floors the windows have stone sills. There is a band course across the bottom of the 3rd floor, fluted, with small round and slightly-larger oval rosettes. The paired windows at this floor are topped by brick round-arches with stone imposts and keystones, and the triple-windows are topped by stone lintels with rosettes and garlands. Above the 3rd floor the windows have brick lintels. Another band course runs below the 8th floor, with flat paired brackets at the two outer bays on both sides. This floor also has brick round-arches above the paired windows, and there are stone surrounds around the triple-windows of both the 8th & 9th floors, with stone spandrels in between ornamented with garlands in the middle and rosettes at the ends. A stone cornice caps the roof line, rising to shallow peaked pediments above the triple-window bays.

The building has 57 cooperative apartments. The ground floor is occupied by Flowers of the World, and The Art of American Craft.